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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What damaged all the neighbor's crops?

2. What was the condition of Yun's release?

3. What verse was cited in that day's devotional?

4. What did God direct Yun to do during this time of rest after his escape?

5. According to Yun, what would an average Chinese Christian give in an offering for missions?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Fourteen, Yun went to trial. How was his devotional book, "Streams in the Desert" used to help him stay faithful to his fellow Christians on the outside?

2. Explain the miraculous circumstances of Yun's escape from prison in Chapter Twenty-Two.

3. How did Yun eventually end up hospitalized in a German refugee detention center?

4. In Chapter Eighteen, how did Yun and Chaun become "unofficial pastors" of the prison?

5. How did the Christians begin to help people who violated the "one child law" as Yun and Deling had?

6. In Chapter Twenty-One, Deling was jailed with Yun. How did their children avoid being taken by the government?

7. What devastating news did Yun hear in Chapter Twenty-Five?

8. In Chapter Twenty, how did the church experience disunity?

9. How did Brother Xu attempt to help Yun?

10. In Chapter Sixteen, what were the conditions of Yun's release?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter Twenty-Three, Yun escaped from prison. What was his life like on the run? Provide some specific examples from the book showing how Yun believed God miraculously intervened in his life to protect him and get him out of China.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter Two, Yun wrote that God intervened in his life by healing his father. This is the first of many miraculous healings we read about in this book.

Part 1) Recount from the book at least three different times that Yun attributed a miraculous healing to God. Name the person healed and the circumstances.

Part 2) Did Yun view the healing as a means to an end? What would that end be?

Part 3) Did Yun downplay healings or exalt them? Why?

Essay Topic 3

In one of his later imprisonments, Yun was ordered (along with the other prisoners) by prison officials to worship Buddha. Why would Buddhism be sanctioned by the Chinese government, and Christianity forbidden? Are there things about Christianity that are threatening to any government? Explain your view.

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